Catalogue Tracks Sustainability Efforts

Catalogue tracks sustainability efforts

Coffee is one of Timor-Leste?s most important crops, bringing much-needed revenue to the country. Magdalena Salsinha, holding coffee beans, has been picking coffee since she was 15 years old. Now 55, she lives near Ermera and is married with six children.

The Sustainable Coffee Challenge, the Global Coffee Platform and the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) have joined together to create the Sustainable Coffee Catalogue, an assessment of sustainability initiatives in the international coffee sector.

The catalogue, released in September during the international Vision2020 workshop in London, details environmental efforts around the world as more than 80 stakeholders work toward establishing coffee as the world’s first fully sustainable agricultural crop.

The stakeholders combined now invest more than $350 million each year in sustainability programs and reach more than 350,000 farmers, the report states.